3:41 AM,
Sep. 6, 2013

Frances 'Fanny' Wright

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"Frances Wright was the first woman in this country who spoke on the equality of the sexes. She was subjected to public odium, slander and persecution. Oh, she had her reward ? the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."

Ronald Walters, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, noted that reformers like Wright are often forgotten in the recounting of the women's rights movement because of their different nature. "Her controversial ideas on gender and religion (among other topics) were so notorious that ...